In the Battle of Shangganling, the party committee bought 20,000 apples for the soldiers at their own expense, why only one was sent in?
The Battle of Shangganling in 1952 was one of the fiercest and most brutal battles in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the Battle of Shangganling very clearly reflected the high intensity and distance of the US military's fire blockade.
In this battle, the equipment gap between the enemy and us can be said to be a world of difference. In this battle, the United Nations army flew more than 3,000 aircraft, more than 300 artillery pieces, more than 170 tanks, and the Volunteers all of these equipment were zero. According to post-war statistics, on average, every second, 6 shells exploded in Shangganling. Every square meter of land, at least 76 shells exploded, and its artillery fire density far exceeded the level of World War II.
In the face of such cruel fire suppression, the frontal battlefield of the volunteer army was almost completely destroyed, and the pit could only be dug on the reverse slope, and when the American artillery fire stopped, it could come out of the tunnel and counterattack the American troops who charged forward. This tug-of-war was almost brutal, and the U.S. army almost cut off all the supplies of the Shangganling Volunteer Army.
At first, some turnips were sent into the pit road, but then it was found that the heartburn of the radish was eaten, so the Party Committee of the Fifteenth Army of the Volunteer Army took out its own passbook, bought 20,000 apples from its own pocket, and organized a fruit delivery team, promising that as long as anyone can send a basket of apples into the pit road, the second-class merit will be rewarded once.
However, until the end of the Battle of Shangganling, a basket of apples was not sent into the tunnel, and only a fruit delivery man took an apple scattered on the ground at the last moment of sacrifice and rolled into the tunnel with all his strength.
After the warriors in the tunnel got this only apple, they were reluctant to eat it, one person only took a small bite, afraid that the bite was too big for others to eat, so you took a small bite of me, and an apple almost spread throughout the entire tunnel. Such things do not appear in the story, but are real things that happen in real life.
Through this apple in the Battle of Shangganling, we can see what kind of situation the volunteer army was facing at that time, and thus we can reflect the difficulty and difficulty of the entire War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea; the volunteer army used the worst equipment and the most backward conditions to defeat the heavily armed US army and break the myth of the invincibility of the US army.